Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Westchester

2020 was supposed to be a blockbuster year for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was just starting to celebrate its 150^th anniversary as COVID-19 hit.

Even before the pandemic, the museum world and many of the great institutions of New York were balancing the challenges of rapidly increasing complexity, societal change, and on-going challenges of engagement, governance, programming, purpose and ensuring financial stability.

This talk will address these issues facing great institutions and the challenges of adapting to a post-COVID-19 through the lense of the Met:

1. What will the Museum experience look like after months of its doors being shuttered?
2. How will the Met think about engaging its audience from a programming perspective?
3. How will great institutions re-dress their financial positions?

We look forward to hearing from Dan Weiss about the latest work at one of New York’s leading institutions and will have ample time for Q&A.

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Daniel Weiss is President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum. He received his B.A. from The George Washington University, an MBA from Yale, and a MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins. 

With approximately two million objects in its collection representing more than 5,000 years of artistic achievement from around the world, seven million visitors annually, and an operating budget of $320 million, The Met is one of the largest and most diverse art museums in the world.